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TG 1917: Trump & Netanyahu To Meet: Is A Gaza Ceasefire Really On The Cards?

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss the likely outcomes of next week's Oval Office meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and speculate as to the likelihood of any possible ceasefire in Gaza.

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TG 1916: Trump To Withhold Arms From Ukraine? Is It This Time For Real?

George Szamuely discusses the news stories claiming that the Trump administration plans to withhold key weapons systems from Ukraine, and wonders--given that we have been here before--whether this time the claims are for real.

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TG 1915: Russia-Azerbaijan Standoff Is Now A Serious Matter

George Szamuely discusses the growing crisis in relations between Russia and Azerbaijan, and wonders whether NATO might be opening up a new front against Russia.

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The Gaggle Music Club: Prelude To Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg By Richard Wagner

This week's selection for The Gaggle Music Club is the Prelude (Vorspiel) to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner. Die Meistersinger is among Wagner's most complex and ambivalent works. It is also his most accessible and delightful of his mature works.

Die Meistersinger is unique in that it is his only opera that gets described as a comedy. It is of course a very serious work of art, and one of the few operas that Wagner composed that is not based on myth or legend, but rather on historical and cultural life in Renaissance Germany.

Wagner began sketching ideas for Die Meistersinger as early as 1845, while working on Tannhäuser. At the time, he became interested in the historical guild of master singers (Meistersinger)—artisan musicians who adhered to strict compositional rules in the free imperial city of Nuremberg during the 16th century. Wagner drew heavily on Johann Christoph Wagenseil’s 1697 historical treatise on the Meistersinger tradition.

After setting it aside for more ...

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Monday Night At The Movies

Please choose which one of the following 8 movies you would like to have screened next Monday, July 7.

The theme is "films with a surprise twist."

Please continue to vote after July 7, so that we can determine the runner-up. The runner-up will be screened on July 14.

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#4: I have often alleged that Western media hypes up their supposed enemies.

This includes the damage that they inflict and the threat that they pose. Again, this violates peasant common sense. Why would NAFO hype up the damage that Russia is doing to the UAF? That doesn’t make any (common) sense! Well, let’s leave behind the world of theories and sci-fi to cite an official Kremlin statement on the topic. Here:

MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Wall Street Journal’s story about Kiev’s heavy losses in the Sumy Region is a campaign conducted by Ukraine’s intelligence service, a source in the Russian law enforcement agencies told TASS.

The newspaper quoted the Ukrainian military as saying that the defense of the Sumy Region costs Kiev more human losses than necessary. According to the newspaper, Russia allegedly deployed about 50,000 troops in the area, which is three times the number of the Ukrainian army there.

"The Wall Street Journal publication is a typical example of ...

January 21, 2023
More Leftie Than Thou
"Jacobin" Magazine Celebrates A Strike Against Ol' Blue Eyes

Here at "The Gaggle" we have very little time for the "more Leftie than thou" school of thought--that's the approach to life according to which the only thing that matters is whether you take the right position on every issue under the sun from Abortion to Zelensky. No one in the world meets the exacting standards of this school of thought; any Leftie leader anywhere is always selling out to the bankers and the capitalists. The perfect exemplar of this is the unreadable Jacobin magazine. 

The other day I came across this article from 2021. It's a celebration of trade union power. And not simply trade union power, but the use of trade union power to secure political goals. Of course (and this is always the case with the "more Leftie than thou" crowd), this glorious, never-to-be-forgotten moment on the history of organized labor took place many years ago--in the summer of 1974 to be exact. Yes, almost half a century has gone by since that thrilling moment when the working-class movement of Australia mobilized and prepared to seize the means of production, distribution and exchange. 

Well, not quite. Organized labor went into action against...Ol' Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board, the Voice; yes, Frank Sinatra. Why? What had Sinatra done? Sinatra was certainly very rich, and he owned a variety of properties and businesses. But if the Australian trade union movement were, understandably, searching for the bright, incandescent spark that would finally awaken the working class from its slumber there were surely richer, greedier, more dishonest, more decadent, above all more Australian individuals it could have discovered. Australia was never short of them. Rupert Murdoch immediately springs to mind. Why Sinatra?

 

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